Raya, Associate Designer
Written by Deborah Bruce / Director Roxana Silber / Set & Costume Designer Moi Tran / Lighting Designer Matt Haskins / Sounds Designer & composer Nick Powell / Movement Director Kiren Virdee / Associate Designer Mona Camille / Assistant Director Lucy Hayes / Costume Supervisor Malena Arcucci
Cast: Shannon Hayes (ALANNAH), Bo Poraj (JASON), Claire Price (ALEX)
Photograph by Robert Day
Hampstead Theatre
2021
2021
Claire Price as Alex
Photographs by Mona Camille
︎ Mona Camille
Raya is about two uni sweethearts meeting again after 30 years. The play unfolds in the old student house they used to spend time in. We’re taken on a journey of reconnecting to the past and our younger selves.
“it’s wonderful to be in an intimate space up close to lifelike characters who only gradually strip back layers of flirtation, awkwardness, jollity and self-deception to reveal complex, contradictory emotional lives. I’d almost forgotten how powerful theatre’s microscope can be.” - The Times
“it’s wonderful to be in an intimate space up close to lifelike characters who only gradually strip back layers of flirtation, awkwardness, jollity and self-deception to reveal complex, contradictory emotional lives. I’d almost forgotten how powerful theatre’s microscope can be.” - The Times
︎ Mona Camille